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I took advantage of Ottakar's Manga Club 4 for the price of 3 offer and bought the first volumes of Case Closed, Rurouni Kenshin, and Eerie Queerie, as well as Yu-Gi-Oh: Duelist vol 2. (I think One Piece should be in the shops by now but I've not seen it but would have bought it if I had).

Hanging scenes seem to be in the class of problematic material. Some years back when C4 broadcast Pasolini's film The Gospel According to St Matthew for Easter they had to, or felt they had to, cut or edit the scene of of Judas hanging himself. Given that there has to be a line drawn between...

I've finally finished Bleach vol 4, but holding back starting volume 5 until I get vol 6. Being a passenger on a long car journey gave me the chance to get through Naruto vols 2 and 3, Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist vol 1 and half of Hunter x Hunter vol 4. However, instead finishing off Hunter x Hunter vol...

I started reading the Bleach manga just before Christmas and I'm glad that anime has now been licenced. I'm wondering how long it will take it (and the Naruto anime) to reach these shores. Some of the comments posted about this news suggest some people are not very happy with Bleach being...

The cusp of becoming a space pirate seems a good time change avatar. This time is it is a different picture of the same subject: Li Syaoran from Cardcaptors Sakura

Leaving aside any discussion of the merits of the Naruto two points struck me when I saw this story. This first was that a manga book could be included in a book chart. A few years back when the then new third Harry Potter book was topping the booksales it was excluded from Times'...

Nothing usual there - judging what the company does to those shows. Are these remarks his prawn sandwich? (Ratner reference)

Indeed, the internet generation will queue-up for the chance to read a 700 page tome. After that a 200page graphic novel will hardly be a problem - they might even want to read it in the original language. And, of course, it was a bookshop that was one of the first sucess stories for online...

It is nothing to do with Sky reshuffle. If that was the case it would have already moved on Feb 28th. This move is a decision by Cartoon Network/Turner. I suppose it must be considered preferable to have Toonami in the same clump as the CN and Boomerang rather than on the fringe of the band at...

Toonami's, or rather Turner's, decision to go for more live action stuff is rather strange in some ways. 'Trouble' which used to show the same sort of thing has just fled the band, whereas Rapture's highest rated programmes are the FMA, Wolf's Rain reprise. I'm sure something like 'Naruto'...

Just looked at the United Publications website and they seem to be having a sale of manga titles all for £3.49 until the end of April. (I have no connection with the company except as a customer)

I'm wondering if this change is intended to capture the audience from the old 'Trouble' channel now that it has moved out of the 'Kids' band? 'Parker Lewis Can't Lose' features Colin Nemec several years before his stint in Stargate SG-1 (s6) so must be at least 10 years old - probably more...

To make it worse it is being dragged out further as since volume 4 they've reduced the eps per disc form 4 to 3. I do hate it when things just dissappear from the schedules and press releases without explanation. Still, I can buy Ghost in the Shell: Innocence in its place.

I notice, despite supposedly coming out on Monday, Play lists Yu Yu Hakusho #5 as "not currently available", and doesn't have a 'buy' button for it. I hope this doesn't mean its being put on hold like GetBackers, or has been bumped back again.

I've just finished GetBackers #13 and returned to Bleach #4. After that I've got a backlog of DNAngel and Hunter x Hunter to work through.

One film you might like to see, and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned, is the classic Akira. I you liked DBZ then, along with Naruto and Hunter x Hunter, you might like also like to try Yu Yu Hakusho. For a complete change of style and tempo there is Kino's Journey.

To mark the end of my chibi-dom, and ascent to first child I've changed my avatar to Li Syaoran from Cardcaptors Sakura. I've quite a few of these for future use; not just Li but also Eriol and Zachary (don't know the original Japanese name). I chose pictures of these characters because I...

Black List Hunter (Hunter x Hunter), Spirit Detective (Yu Yu Hakusho), Lightening Emperor (GetBackers), Eternal Dragon (Dragonball/Z/GT) Bit Beast (Beyblade) (I do have my doubts about ranks. I'm suspect some forums I've visited have a poor signal to noise ratio because of people posting lots...

I got a nice parcel of manga today: The latest available volumes of GetBackers (13), Hunter x Hunter (7) and Hikaru no Go (6), along with some Naruto (3) and Bleach (5). That should keep me busy for the next month, or at least the week-end.

I would expect nothing less from Melvyn Bragg (his Radio 4 series In Our Time is usually quite fascinating). It did address, or rather, explain Anime's bad reputation (which it still seems to have in Canada) when it first started to appear in the late 80s/early 90s. I've been trying to put my...